Welcome to Math!

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Welcome, and thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. My name is Megan Winger and the Brock Math Blog is all about the math class I am taking at Brock University in the Consecutive Teacher Education program. This blog will entail everything from this class from reflections, ideas, discussions and much more. Math has been both a success and failure for me so I am interested to see where this course will take me in terms of my attitude toward math and how I will successfully teach Math. Stay tuned for all the ups, downs, good and bad! Talk soon.

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